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...Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone's rigging...
Rear Admiral C. F. Billard, Commandant of the United "States Coast Guard, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight...
Rear Admiral Billard has written that he has changed the title of his address, though the subject matter of the talk will conform to the title announced in October. The old title "Sea-fighting Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young...
Rear Admiral Billard's appearance today is especially significant in view of the imminent increase in activities along Rum Row, which are sure to occur with the approach of the holiday season...
Rear Admiral Billard cited many examples of actual war work done by the Coast Guard branch of the Navy during the World War. It was in the convoying of troop ships, that the Coast Guard was particularly of service in the recent...